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Location: Birmingham, AL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, FastAPI, LangChain, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS/GCP
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanturner/ · https://github.com/bmanturner
Email: [email protected]
Lead full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience, looking for Senior or Tech Lead roles. Since 2023 I've shipped LLM products: the natural-language-to-SQL API behind HEAVY.AI's HeavyIQ, and weekly search-analytics agents for 1,000+ clients at Copysmith, where I owned the architecture. I built the UI/UX for HeavyRF, an NVIDIA Omniverse digital twin shown in the GTC 2022 keynote, and spent six years on HIPAA-regulated healthcare apps. I also run Flippd (https://flippd.gg), a pinball app with 1,600 monthly users.
I assume it’s for one-off cases that you encounter while agents scrape/browse with a goal in mind.
I lead development on Pindigo (
https://pindigo.app), a social score-tracking and ranking app for pinball players.
Most of my time lately has gone into Flippd, its successor, which we recently soft-launched. We’ve also released a tech demo that uses custom computer-vision models to identify a pinball machine from a photo and extract the player’s score.
You can try it here: https://flippd.gg/scan
Everything you mentioned OpenClaw does is also something that Hermes supports. Hermes also supports project-scoped kanban boards and can orchestrate across multiple specialized Hermes profiles.
I'm Pindigo's dev. Thanks for the plug!
Our locations are sourced from Pinball Map; scores can be tagged with locations which allows us to maintain leaderboards for specific machines (in addition to global/social/event leaderboards).
Just wanted to give a shoutout to my hobby app, a social scorekeeper and ranker for pinball players, Pindigo. It’s free; there are over 11k users posting scores. It also has locations, user groups, and leaderboards.
https://www.pindigo.app
> Javascript or Typescript?
> Javascript :)
Pass
I have and am still working there. Fairly kismet situation; found a very bespoke opportunity.
Was this website written in it? It’s awful on mobile. :/
This website crashes Firefox on iOS
I've been a senior engineer for several years now and feel that I would enjoy the jump to principal engineer. Are there any recommended coursework or books that would help me with this?
Professionally, I'm working on the frontend of a radio frequency propagation simulator for 3D "digital twins" of cities/regions. This uses ImGui under the hood, but is wrapped by Python. It's a bit of a pain, but I came up with a class that allows the UI to be composed in a manner more akin to React Components.
For fun, I just implemented a finite-state machine for a videogame I'm working on in Rust. It's used to swap out sprite animations depending on the state of its parent entity. I'm glad to be solving problems I'd never come across in my normal line of work.
That landing page is fantastic
Looks awesome. I wish it weren’t Windows only.
Location: Birmingham, AL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Node, Express, React, React Native, GraphQL, Typescript, MongoDB, SQL, Docker
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanturner/
Email: [email protected]
Hobby Project: https://www.patreon.com/pindigo
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M.S. in Data Science - Dec '21
I've spent the last 6 years planning and building HIPAA-compliant web applications in Javascript.
As a hobbyist homelabber and the sole technical developer of a hobby app for 8k users, I also have experience with mobile app development, network engineering, sysadmin, and devops.
Thank you for your guidance. I will investigate further
The preprocessing suggestions I see are to crop out everything except for the numbers and I don’t know how to do that programmatically. There’s many kinds of displays: rollers, 7-segment, dot matrix, and LCD.
The preprocessing to increase DPI to 300 did not help when I tried Tesseract, unfortunately. It’s hard to achieve a good contrast between the numbers and the backdrop
I’m working on OCR to recognize the scores on pinball machines. I have about a quarter million photos encompassing every model of pinball machine in the world but I just don’t have the know-how to accommodate all the font styles.
I really hope the rust implementation of Matrix helps. I reboot my Matrix container daily because if I don't it'll quickly eat through the 12GB of memory I've allocated it. I run a 3 person instance.
"Unsupported browser" messages when attempting to login on both desktop firefox and mobile firefox.
Ebay works on and off for me. I often have to resort to Safari
Turntable is coming back. tt.fm
Also with Fastmail on my own domain. I like the little extras they offer too, like calendar/contacts/file storage. You can even host static sites with them if you want.
Neat. Still can't make the switch until they have an equivalent to Firefox containers.
This whole ordeal motivated me to join the fediverse and I'm not looking back.
Why not decentralized/federated services run by by various communities all across the world?
If you were asking how Harris and Peterson can be linked, they've debated publicly and have hosted discussions with one another on their podcasts.